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Your GP sounds absolutely rubbish. Are there any others at the surgery you could try? I’ve heard of people being offered buprenorphine (subutex) to help them detox.
If cold turkey isn’t working could you try a taper (taking fewer each week until you’re down to zero). Its slower and does take some willpower not to slip but helps make the withdrawals a hell of a lot easier.
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Glad your doctor was good about it and on the ball with the hospital tests.
Did your doctor have a plan to reduce the prescribed codeine? Definitely better to take that in the short term rather than codeine mixed with paracetamol/nurofen.
Well done for being so brave!
How did it go Pookz?
I am so sorry about your loss. I hope your doctor is sympathetic to your situation, especially considering you’ve just lost someone so close to you. I’d be optimistic as possible and hopefully if this is the first time you’ve ever done something like this and haven’t got any previous criminal record that even if it does have to go to the police they’d not be harsh on you considering your situation and that you are vulnerable as an addict and in the midst of grieving.
I don’t know about the legal implications but I can understand why you did what you did. I would probably have been tempted too if I had a legitimate prescription.
Hopefully you’ll just get a telling off or at worst a caution but I really have no idea.
Sorry you’re in this situation, it must be very scary 🙁
Hi all, just jumping in to give some hope to anyone with a seriously heavy codeine dependency. I was taking somewhere between 28-30 x 30mg codeine tablets every single day – that’s about 900mg or thereabouts. Whilst being a mum to two, holding down a job and to the outside looking ok.
I knew i couldn’t cold turkey off that amount, i’m sure some people can but I knew I wouldn’t be able to. I’m in the last two weeks of a 2 month taper down, and at the end of next week should be down to 0!
To be honest the slow taper has meant the physical symptoms have been not too bad, some aches and pains (although these have only been worse in the last couple of weeks) and a runny nose. Psychologically it has been harder, i’d become so used to a lift from the pills in the morning and another lift in the afternoon there’s a definite feeling of low mood and loss of the thing I used to look forward to each day – my ‘little helper’ (even though in the end it didn’t even really make me feel good).
Anyway, I’m just posting to say that tapering is an option if cold turkey doesn’t work for you. I’ve managed not to need a day off work or anything in this 2 month period, although it has been hard sometimes.
Good luck all
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